1.2% ▼ -71.3%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lake Clifton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lake Clifton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer households go without a car in Lake Clifton than across the rest of the country. Only 1.2% of homes lack a vehicle, making it much more reliant on private cars than the national average. This heavy dependence is clear, with over half of the working population driving themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, as 22.4% own four or more and 37.8% have two. This helps explain why the number of homes without a vehicle is well below the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lake Clifton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 54.8% of residents. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 8.5% of the workforce doing so.
8.5% ▲ +158.7%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.8% ▲ +93.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to buses, and while the area has more routes than many similar places, the number of stops and departures is far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.32
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
38.2
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 63 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
63
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Lake Clifton
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lake Clifton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50815/lake-clifton/topic/transport